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BDP growth forces office move as staff reach 1,000
Europe’s largest architectural practice, BDP, is moving 70 staff into a new London office following a rapid expansion that has seen it grow to 1,000 employees for the first time.
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Growing down the local
Worn-out workers were able to escape the city blues this week, thanks to the efforts of the Office for Subversive Architecture, which created the Hoegaarden Urban Oasis at Broadgate Circus in London.
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Terror jinx as practice caught up in three incidents
Three Shepheard Epstein Hunter staff members were caught up in last week’s terror activity in London, just two weeks after practice architect Renato Pimenta witnessed the bus blast in Tavistock Square.
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Bristol fashion
Lab Architecture Studio has unveiled the first image of its £15 million proposed Museum of Bristol.
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Road hold-up delays Capita Percy Thomas academy deadline
A new £14 million academy school building in Everton, Liverpool, designed by Capita Percy Thomas will not be completed in time for the start of term in September.
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Tricorn replacement ugly and clumsy
Proposals for a £300 million development by architect Chapman Taylor in Portsmouth have been slammed by the local civic society and a former architect at Hampshire County Council.
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Olympic deal revealed
Ex-Cabe chairman Stuart Lipton agreed not to frustrate plans for the 2012 London Olympics in exchange for co-operation over a £4 billion development on a neighbouring site in which his company has a 25% interest.
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Britain to outsource urbanism
The British approach to urban design is set to be franchised out to China, Korea, Canada and the new urbanists in America.
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Great Stowe
One of Britain’s finest 18th century neoclassical great houses, Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, has unveiled newly restored hidden treasures.
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NewsBarrier to understanding
Is city centre regeneration failing Britain’s muslims?We visited the Leeds suburbs of Holbeck and Beeston, home to three of the London suicide bombers, to find a community isolated by dereliction.
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Antarctic competition leaves losers fuming
Hugh Broughton celebrates victory as Hopkins blames politics
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NewsThe battle between David and the Goliaths
Hugh Broughton Architects has only eight architects, but beat two of Britain’s most prestigious practices — Hopkins Architects and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands — to design the Antarctic research station.
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Prescott backs Vauxhall Tower
Broadway Malyan’s highly controversial Vauxhall Tower has won the official backing of the deputy prime minister and will now go ahead.
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NewsHit and miss
Zaha Hadid’s office was celebrating yet another win this week following the news that it had secured the commission to redesign Eleftheria Square in Nicosia, Cyprus (pictured).Gillespies urban design firm and Westminster council have unveiled designs for a revamped Leicester Square. Raised lawns will be added to the square, as ...
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People
Architect David Adjaye’s collaboration with artist Chris Ofili has been purchased by the Tate Gallery. The Upper Room is a space designed by Adjaye and houses 12 paintings of Rhesus monkeys by Ofili.Superstar architect Frank Gehry has been commissioned to design a $1 billion masterplan for the Grand Avenue in ...
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Powerplay
The government this week announced new plans to link the release of land with the local housing market. The plans were universally criticised by planning experts at the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Town & Country Planning Association for endangering regeneration.Regeneration quango English Partnerships has announced that the former ...
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Sound wave of complaints
New noise problems emerge at Greenwich Millennium Village as management claims to have solution
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Truce over Northern housing demolition
The government and heritage campaigners are poised to call a truce over controversial plans to demolish thousands of homes in the North, with the government pledging to take heritage into account when drawing up plans.
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NewsReid architect among Tube bomb victims
Tributes have been paid to an architectural assistant and his girlfriend who died in the London tube bombings.
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NewsDocklands duet
Believe it or not, this development at London’s Canary Wharf, which has just won planning approval, was designed by world-famous architects Cesar Pelli and Will Alsop.